Improved scrubbing-brush



attimi smug 'strut @time SAMUEL GIBSON, OF SAFE HARBOR, PENNSYLVANIA.

Leners Patent No. 96,219, dated october 2o, 1869.

The Schedule referred to i-n these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

scrubhing-brush for which Letters Patent were.

granted to me, October 6, 1868; and consists in casting the socket for the handle in one piece, witlnan L- shaped bar to protect the joint between the brush and the rubber from water, and in the mode of connecting the parts together.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which Iny invent-ion appertains, to make and use the same, -I will now proceed to desc'n'be its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a. perspective view, and

Figure 2, an endvview.

A represents an ordinary scrubbing-brush, made in any of the known and usual ways.

An L-shaped bar,`B, is secured tothe ii'ont edge of the brush A, by means of screws a a, which are screwed into the brush,'the upper side of said bar resting on the top of the brush, and may be'letinto the same, so asto present an even surface, or may, if so desired,'be made so asl to entirely cover the top of the brush.

Between the front edge of the brush A and the bar B, is inserted one or more strips of rubber, C, of suite -able dimensions, which are held by means of the screws a a passing through the same, the L-shaped bar B prevent-ing any water from coming into said joint, and thus preventing it from rotting as soon as would otherwise be the case.

' lVith the bar B, on its upper side, is cast the socket D, into which the handle is inserted.

Having thus fully described my invention, -What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the brush A, L-shaped bar B, socket D, andl one or more rubber strips, O, connected to the brush-body by the screws a, all constructed and arranged as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto setmy hand, this 28th day of September,

S. GIBSON.

i Witnesses O. L. EVERTS, A. N. MARR. 

